The Rock's ...Land of the free home of the brave." Tweet discussed by Neal, Kaylee and Charlie really happened. The Rock sent it out about an hour before President Obama's news conference. In addition The Rock really does have a cousin who was a SEAL, a fact The Rock mentioned in a 2008 interview.
Maggie addresses James as "James Tiberius Hopper," to which he replies "Not my middle name!" This is a reference to James T. Kirk on Star Trek.
In Studio 60, Matt Albie (Matthew Perry) mentions catching Bin Laden taking the pressure off of their show. In this episode, catching Bin Laden lays pressure on the show.
This episode is about the killing of Osama bin Laden and ends with actual footage of President Barack Obama announcing to the world what the US special forces had just achieved. Ironically, the episode aired the day before the trailer premiere of Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), which recounted the events leading up to Bin Laden's assassination.